From: Gary Britt 

  Not really.  The old Gary would have figured out how to get
"anti-American euro-trash snobbery" into that paragraph one
additional time.
;-)

Mark wrote:
> You've been somewhat scarce in posting of late Gary (relatively speaking)
> but I think you're back! 
>
> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> news:45d529ed{at}w3.nls.net...
> Actually its plain math as regards exchange rates.  The problem is I didn't
> comment on exchange rates.  I commented on the extraneous anti-American
> euro-trash snobbery contained in the article writer's irrelevant and off
> point gratuitous comments about the dollar.  So again we'll just have to
> disagree as a discussion of exchange rate mechanics is irrelevant to my
> point and the gratuitous anti-American euro-trash snobbery of the idiot
> writer who can't figure out how to put a shortcut for control panel on the
> desktop.
>
> Gary
>
> Adam > wrote:
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>> We'll just have to disagree as to both of your replies below.
>>>
>> huh? It's plain economics.....
>>
>> "Apparently, Bill's minders had neglected to prep him for
that question,
>> because if he understood even the basic principles behind currency
>> exchange rates, he would have known that the "drift"
would make Vista
>> cheaper in Europe. The American $380 stand-alone Vista Ultimate package
>> would retail here for  292 plus VAT, not  600 with VAT."
>>
>>
>> Do the numbers.
>>
>> imagine 1 usd = 1 euro.
>>
>> as such 1 copy of vista would be E380
>>
>> OK so far?
>>
>> Now the USD is on the slide so let's make the numbers easier & say now 2
>> USD = 1 Euro
>>
>> so now a copy of vista should = 380/2 euro i.e. E190
>>
>> instead it's nearly doubled to E600 i.e. USD1200
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Adam > wrote:
>>>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>>>> You are correct.  I must have been thinking of Win2K
or Win98.  I must
>>>>> have created my XP control panel shortcut the old
fashioned way by
>>>>> going
>>>>> to control.exe and right clicking and telling it send
shortcut to
>>>>> desktop.  The create shortcut option is available if
you right click on
>>>>> the control panel icon in "My Computer"
which would work also.  Either
>>>>> of those two ways work reliably every time, and you
identified a third
>>>>> way.  So again the guys an idiot.
>>>>>
>>>>> The parts you quoted in his message wasn't the
anti-USA euro-trash
>>>>> snobbery.  It was the part about USA currency sliding
to 3rd World
>>>>> bannana republic levels that was the Euro-Trash
snobbery.  A totally
>>>>> gratuitous and irrelevant to his article side remark.
>>>>>
>>>> Nope it was accurate. If a good is priced at USD4 &
it's 1 USD to the
>>>> UKL then it's 4 UKL. If the USD slides to 2 then it's 2UKL.
>>>>
>>>> As it is the opposite has happened where are USD4 good is
priced by MS
>>>> at UKL8 which equates to USD16 when the currency slips.
>>>>
>>>>> The high cost of high tech in Europe is related no doubt to the
>>>>> economic
>>>>> policies that make Europe made high tech so expensive
and importers of
>>>>> low cost USA goods have no reason not to price their
goods in line with
>>>>> the local market conditions established by the
inefficient European
>>>>> high
>>>>> tax socialist welfare economic models.
>>>>>
>>>> Nah that's bullsh*t. They just think they can get away
with it & no US
>>>> state attorney types such as Spitzer in NY who might take
them to court
>>>> for ripping off the consumer.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I think it's just (A) Typical MS arrogance
"take or leave it
>>>> where we think you've got to take it" & (B)
Marvelous coz then even
>>>> fewer will upgrade to Vista & will consider their alternatives.
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>
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